Rising overall retail sales — both e-commerce and traditional — and the pressure to deliver products more quickly has led to more truckload and LTL delivery points, not fewer, resulting in greater pressure on capacity.

Truck capacity is tight, while many private and dedicated fleets have excess capacity. Lanehub says it has a solution, with a technology that allows shippers that have private fleets or use dedicated contract carriers to market their available or anticipated capacity to other shippers.

The Cass Truckload Linehaul Index for July indicates an increasing rate of acceleration for truckload linehaul pricing, posting the first double digit increase year over year since Cass began tracking it in 2005.